It's time to head all the way from White Bay, JVD to Trellis Bay, Beef Island. The time has flown by, but it's been an amazing trip. The forecast is calling for high winds and heavy seas. We had originally planned to sail on the outside of the channel around Scrub Island to Beef Island, but we changed our minds after we heard the weather forecast.
We motored from Jost Van Dyke to the channel where we started sailing with two reefs in the sails. Maria and I aren't big fans of heeling so far over that the rail is in the water… So we took it nice and easy for a few hours. We weren't covering much ground, so I used more of my ASA 105 skills and determined that we were only going about 2 nautical miles an hour towards our destination. In the BVI they want you to be moored or anchored by 1630 if you are bareboat sailing. We were sailing into the wind so we were zig-zagging inside the channel on a close haul at about 4 knots, which wouldn't get us to Trellis Bay by 4:30pm. We then reluctantly fired up the motor and made it to Trellis bay at about 4:00. It was a pretty nice ride, a little rough with the northern swells that began rolling in. Our sea turtle friend came by to say Hi.
We went to The Last Resort at Trellis Bay for some appetizers, then we checked out the shopping. There are art shops with some interesting local artwork, and the biggest hammock I've ever seen. We went back to the boat to get in some more time on the floaties. Then we had tacos on the boat, and one last night of fish watching by flashlight.
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